Teddy and Carrots: Two Merchants of Newpaper Row

tle down to business as his partner wished; and then the two made a hearty supper from a Bologna sausage, some

he took from his pocket a collection of coins. "You want back the forty-three cents you paid inter the c

do. I took in sixty-five cents,

ach feller keep his profits, an' it'll be fair. Now here's the rest of yo

y I'd rather think some of my money was here, an', p'rhaps, when I com

once; but Carrots appeared so anxious to have a pecun

rots, an' when you come back I'll be

rm, and suddenly Carrots was reminded

orget all 'bout that lawyer! Now it wo

ourse

o over every mornin

pay it. Say, I don't s'pose you'd care if I should use your box while you're gone, would you? I've been t

ty slick, 'cause the fellers don't like to see a boy try t

it. Now, is there anythi

u'll keep the house? Nobody knows of it

kon Skip Jellison's goin' to make it mighty

til morning Carrots dreamed of the ideal

fancied he would always have plenty of money, now he had been engaged as a farmer, insisted on paying the entire

d not go near the City Hall, and business was so flourishing that he felt sorry wh

up his residence in the country unslung hi

' he said, 'All right.' I don't s'pose he cares,

in great shape, so

nted toward an old wagon drawn by two mules, as he exclaimed: "That team b'longs out to the farm

rots; they're great on showin' thei

ts said contemptuously; and just then the farmer came out of a neigh

d better say good-by now. You'll find me i

rrots replied, confidently, as he shook his f

's departure, Teddy succeeded in the wo

rced to change his business location several times, owing to the trouble which he had with boys

ore of provisions packed snugly away in a box, and, as he said in a tone of satisfaction on this third nigh

of Teenie Massey, who, now that Carrots

on his introduction to the city, and it seemed a

"It may be business is better 'round City Hall; but it doesn't stand to reason I could earn so very much more up there t

Carrots had dreamed of the farm, so Teddy had often pictured to himself how he would live and conduct his business when once the stand was an assured fact; and while in t

ht should betray his whereabouts, for he had no doubt that the i

that he was startled beyond the power of speech when h

an instant later the would-be farmer was

rom?" Teddy cried, after standing

ere I come from!" Carrots

so soon as th

month if they'd give me the whole place, an' all the animals there was on i

and Teddy relighted the candle in order

raged, and the dust on his boots to

he asked; and even hi

rigerator, revealing to view a

t need an invitatio

since leaving the city, and Teddy refrained from aski

er an enormous meal, "wha

an' I guess that comes pr

rve to death there in a week! I never saw sich a place! 'Bout the time you go to sleep they call you to get up; an' I do b'lieve yesterday it wasn't more'n late in the

as you thought?" Teddy said, laughingly; for he had a ver

. An' if all farmers are like that old feller I went

at the start, an' te

h him, an' you'd thought he loved me 'most to death till we got to the farm. Then I helped unharness them plaguy old mules, an' one of 'em fetched me a kick with his heels that left a black-an'-blue spot

f introduce you to t

job he set me at would have taken three men a month; an' he 'lowed I was to have it all done before night! You see, I didn't have any dinner, an' had heard so much 'bout how they lived in the country that I thought I'd kind er like to sample the cookin'. So I asked him if he didn't think it would be best to have some grub before I tackled sich a

id he leave

et he was mad! He wanted to know why I didn't leave the oxen behind, an' what I was doin' with the sheep, an' how I ever expected to catch them two colts ag'in? I asked him to tell me how I was goin' to sort 'em out when they was runnin' all 'round. Said I was hungry, an' didn't have time for sich jobs. Why, Teddy, there was one of them sheep what had horns on; I couldn't have got rid of it if I'd sta

se. I should have thought

a while I got 'round by the other side of the fence, let down the bars, an' then sneaked up through the bushes till I got the whole

ow do I

R THAT PASTURE QUICK

to the pasture. I told him I'd go home before I'd trust myself in the lane alone with that black-faced sheep of his ag'in. Then he said I couldn't have any supper, so I started down once more, picked up plenty of rocks, an' after a while got 'em in. Then I came back to th

have a thi

I got tired in less'n a day, so thought I'd make the best

en you got yo

ff somewhere an' lose hisself. There was three slices of some kind er bread all full of hard lumps. It tasted bad when you got one of 'em in your mouth. I thought

t all th

n' got sick. I was through breakfast, an' all hands went outdoors. Why, look here, Teddy; it wasn't daylight, an' I'd been up as much as three-quarters of an hour! The farmer asked me if I could feed the calf. I told him if the calf didn't get any more to ea

said, sympathetically. "W

ke; but when you tell 'bout gettin' comfort out er a blanket stretched over a lot of ropes, why, I ain't in it at all! When I went up-stairs last night it seemed as if I was goin' all to pieces, an' I thought of you jest as snug in

far w

't fifty, my name's Dennis! Now I'm here, an' I'

urn in, an' I'll keep awake a little l

and almost before the words had been u